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Teaching agrobiodiversity: a curriculum guide for higher education

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From the Foreword: "in 2009 Bioversity and its partners in higher education
networks on three continents started a process to analyze the knowledge and
skills required to equip a new cadre of researchers, development experts, policy
specialists and teachers to carry out multidisciplinary research and development
interventions on agricultural biodiversity. The process involved a series of surveys, expert consultations and dialogue with key players in both agricultural
research organizations and universities. The result is this publication: Teaching
agrobiodiversity: a curriculum guide for higher education. It is an annotated ‘road
map’ for educational organizations interested in introducing an agrobiodiversity
component into the academic curriculum of courses and programmes at either
the undergraduate or graduate level – or both. It is our hope that agrobiodiversity
becomes a regular feature in all educational programmes of relevance to agriculture
and natural resource management, as well as related sectors such as health and
nutrition. We trust that this guide will ultimately contribute to strengthening
the capacity of tomorrow’s leaders to address the daunting challenges of
environmental sustainability, food security and improved livelihoods."